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Help Guide for Learn More About Healthcare Costs (READ me)

Help Guide to use the Learn More About Healthcare Costs category: Click on LEARN MORE – GENERAL COST of Medical Care if you want to learn about a typical price or approximate average cost for surgery or health care service. The LEARN MORE – HEALTH INSURANCE cost category provides links to learn about problems of the uninsured, how much average insurance premiums cost, HSAs and High Deductible Health Plans, and the difficulty in finding low cost affordable health insurance.

Fact Sheet: Underpayment by Medicare & Medicaid (2019)

Analysis by the American Hospital Association shows that Medicare and Medicaid under-pay the true cost of hospital care by about $77 billion. This cost ends up being borne by other payors and commercial insurance. Using 2017 data, it is estimated Medicare pays 87 cents on the dollar, and Medicaid also pays 87. January 2019 report

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2018 National Health Costs at $11,172 per person Editor's Pick

National Health Costs for 2018 reached an estimated level of $11,172 per capita (per person). Which means every man, woman and child spent on average, nearly $31 EACH DAY (either through insurance, out-of-pocket costs or taxes) to pay for America’s healthcare. This represented 17.7 percent of GDP, $3.6 trillion. Although health spending increased 4.6% in 2018, the percent of GDP was down slightly from 2017, when it was 17.9%. Medicare spending grew 6.4%, Medicaid growth was 3.0%; private insurance was up 5.8%. Out of pocket grew 2.8%. Retail prescription drug spending was up 2.5%. Freestanding nursing care facility spending was up just 1.4%. CMS data